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1.) This has been a totally changeable weather week for our area. A couple of days ago, we had temps approaching the 70-degree mark, giving us all a good case of spring fever. Wednesday evening, a cold front blew in (and I do mean blew), dropped the temps and brought pre-dawn thunderstorms yesterday morning. By late afternoon, the skies were clearing, but it was still cold and very windy.

2.) We’ve been keeping an eye on the winter storm in the northeast, especially in the Vermont area where the Friesian farm is that we visited recently. Have you ever visited a place, then been almost homesick for it after you leave? I keep Townshend (VT) as one of the cities in the weather app on my phone, just so I can see how the weather is there at any given time. Thinking about those beautiful black horses out having fun in all that fresh snow…

4.) What a busy evening it will be tonight….the Full Snow Moon, a lunar eclipse, plus the chance to see a comet in the pre-sunrise hours tomorrow morning. One day, I will learn about night-time photography, but it probably won’t be today.

Winter storm, Jonas, paid us a visit over the weekend. Thankfully, we were on the outskirts of the storm, so we were spared snowfall measurable in feet rather than inches.

Friday, we had a little snow. And we had a visitor, looking for a handout meal. My niece, Donna, commented that, with feet like that, he definitely doesn’t need snowshoes.

Later that afternoon, the snow turned to sleet/freezing rain. I’m not really sure how to tell the difference. But with the wind and that frozen precipitation, we were just relieved not to lose electricity.

Before the second round of snow came, we had some mild tidal flooding. This was taken Saturday morning just a couple of miles from us.

There have only been a few times that I can recall our area experiencing anything remotely like a blizzard. And, although we didn’t really have enough snow accumulation to define this storm as a blizzard, Saturday afternoon’s conditions came close.

We were hunkered down inside.

Yesterday morning, Motor Man happened to glance out the window and called for me to come look. Then came coat, boots and a trudge through the snow to get these pictures.

Marshall and I are always interested in the names of the full moons. The January moon is the “Old Moon”, the “Moon After Yule”, or, appropriately this month, the “Full Snow Moon”. (The Moon After Jonas just doesn’t have the same ring.)

After seeing news coverage of Jonas, we’re thankful that his visit was brief. I suppose you could say that he didn’t stay long enough to unpack his bags.